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Three windmills for drawing water
Also titled Drie haalmolens
Johannes van Somerwil (I) (1715–1764)
1760
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- miniature
- Dimensions
- height 7.2 cm x width 3.7 cm x depth 2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Private gift
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Some types of miniature continued to be produced for ages. One such ‘evergreen’ subject was the windmill placed above a well. These mills used wind power to draw up a bucket of water. While there is more than a century between the earliest and the latest, their form and decoration have remained virtually the same.
